#Inklusion ist #Thema meines Gespräches mit Gabriela Hund von der
#Seelsorge mit seh-beinträchtigten Menschen der Ev. #Kirche in Hessen und Nassau.
Demnächst in der #Blindenhörzeitschrift "Das ABC-Journal" und im #Podcast des @komin@bildung.social
kom-in.de/kina-podcast
... übrigens, @gabrielahund@hessen.social würde sich bestimmt über eine ordentliche Begrüßung im #FediVerse und ein paar #Follower:Innen freuen 
#blind #Sehbehinderung #Selbsthilfe #Behinderung #FediKirche
I’m currently working on a new Python WebKitGTK browser for GNOME. I’m aiming for it to be a better foundation to work on than Epiphany which has a huge C codebase and some outdated UI patterns. 
As the project is growing, I'm deliberating whether Vala could be a better option for the project as it's more GObject oriented, it has stricter typing, and it's compiled. What do you think? 
- Python (30%, 9 votes)
- Vala (70%, 21 votes)
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Please stop demonizing “AI”; the stuff you have a problem with isn’t AI research or AI tech, it’s a very small subset of that domain that (a)has ethical issues with training data sourcing and (b)is being horribly misused/way overly trusted
AI research is valuable and important, and MOST of it doesn’t have these problems. It’s doing things like increasing the reliability of cancer screenings, helping astronomers make better observations, improving assistive technology, accelerating medical research, etc.
Not all AI is “train a chat bot” or “train an image generator” for nefarious or stupid purposes
Just got word that my former employer and former team just got hit by layoffs 😢😢😢
Great people. Shitty timing
> Gamma is a free AI tool that can automatically convert your documents or PDFs into visually appealing presentations in minutes.
Okay, so I understand that AI is cool. I understand that we can make AI do a lot of things. But seriously. First, there's a model that turns HTML into Markdown. And granted, I haven't tried that one, and I probably should. And now this? Like, no one has heard of Pandoc anymore? Like I can literally write a Markdown file and pandoc -i presentation.md -o presentation.pptx. Something like that anyway. And get a presentation out of it. Or just import a Word document into PowerPoint. Or just use a Markdown file and arrow down through the bullet points if I don't *need* to be fansy.
I'm starting to kind of understand how wasteful people are with this kind of stuff.
#ai #presentation #llm
It is very rewarding to see that after just 1 year of my ethnography on data centres in México (when nobody talked about this country), more people are now interested:
"En Querétaro, Microsoft no tiene uno, sino dos centros de datos. Baptista descubrió a través de registros públicos que a uno de los centros de la firma que encabeza Satya Nadella se le concede acceso a 25 millones de litros de agua, aproximadamente una 1/4 del agua asignada a Colón para su uso público."
@treefit the primary goal of Akira is to offer a fast and stable UX and UI design tool. No prototypes or dev mode at first, what Sketch used to be at the beginning, built with native code and targeting Linux.
The rebuild in Rust comes from a performance and inheritance necessity, as well as safety and a more appealing codebase to onboard more contributors.
For how much I love Vala, it’s still a niche language and lacks a lot of the standard libraries and tools compared to others more widespread
Any blind folks, or sighted folks too for that matter, have a favorite non-WYSIWIG resume formatting tool that actually looks good? A good LaTeX template is fine, as is something markdown-based. Hesitant to use Word, where I may not know if margins are bad or if I didn't close a bold or something. Also hesitant to use a web app that may be accessible today but may not be tomorrow.
Other suggestions welcome, I'm just not seeing a path forward that isn't LaTeX/Markdown-adjacent. And maybe I'm unnecessarily afraid of Word but it seems too easy to throw the formatting off or to not understand what's actually going on with a block of text.
а вот не надо было пейджеры самсунг покупать. не… пейджеры??? серьезно? может их просто сразу с пластидом поставляли?
There should be an immediate ban on all packaged shredded cheeses in the United States!
Make America grate again.
Police are shooting people over a $2.90 subway fare.
There’s no way cops can be trusted to enforce a mask ban by determining who is exempt because they are wearing a mask for health reasons.
Do screen readers actually read the plus/minus/tilde symbols when doing content warnings like "PH -"?
Or are screen reader users just rolling the dice every time they open a toot with a PH/MH warning?
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A pity that the project neglects Sieve a/o doesn't support github.com/thsmi/sieve
#thunderbird #sieve #email #spam
At home I had to install Evolution to be able to use f*in' M$365 account.
Since, I believe, Evolution is open-source, why can't Thunderbird use it's technology and support Exchange/M$365 accounts?
I love new Thunderbird interface, and Evolution gives me Thunderbird v45.x vibe.. or worse.
I do enjoy a good fanfiction. I have just started a reread of [the Arithmancer-Verse ](archiveofourown.org/series/993…)
From a literary perspective, I find many aspects of the original books to be unbearably illogical, compared to how much better I've seen them done in fanfiction.
A lot of people consider book 6 or 7 to be the point at which the series went off the rails. Personally, I think it happened when Harry, faced with the prospect of his godfather's imminent death, decided that flying from Scotland to London on a horse was a sound idea. Absurd.
So, I probably do fall into the "fanfiction" is better camp, at least when the fanfiction is actually good.
Some authors take up midway through Rowling and do their own endings, that was very common when waiting for official releases and I suppose those are the most familiar to people who've only read the originals.
Some do post-hogwarts and shoot off after that, having Harry go into another world sometimes, like a crossover with Marvel or go back in time or whatever.
Others reimagine things from the beginning: Harry gets introduced to magic differently, or earlier, or by a new or familiar character.
And yet others poke at other times or parts of the universe: what would happen if Sirius Black got expelled for nearly setting Lupin on Snape, for example? Was one I read recently.
or what if Voldemort's attack happened on twin boys and their parents didn't die? Another one that's been made into a huge series.
They go on for countless iterations, with quality ranging from absolutely dismal to surprisingly hard to put down.
They got worse not better and I only "liked" (3/5) book 3. But they're an experience
Not remotely connected to this one, but of course she didn't have a very big part in the Canon so that's all my brain has to go on!
I don't remember which fic it was. Perhaps fortunately.
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2 fingers moves through the available tables you have chosen I think. Sorry I don't have a device in-hand and it's all become automatic.
I don't often use uncontracted nowadays, but it's legacy from when I was teaching and used my phone as part of my job. Had it in there for years.
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